Hundreds of Baka 'Pygmies' from the Congo rainforest have written to the European Commission, pleading with officials to visit them before providing more funds for the controversial Messok Dja park on their land.

Waves of loggers are invading the territory of one of the most vulnerable peoples on the planet, says Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples' rights. The Brazilian Indians, known as the 'Last of the Kawahiva', are the survivors of a larger tribe who have been killed or died of disease.